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USDA has extended the comment period on the proposal to dissolve the South Texas marketing order. The marketing order authorizes quality regulations, research and promotion programs and markings, and pack and container regulations for onions grown in South Texas. The deadline to submit is Dec. 8.
According to the National Onion Association (NOA), suspension of the order could erase standards on onion imports throughout the country. In an email release, the NOA stated:
If the marketing order goes away, there will be an almost three-month gap where all onion imports are not scrutinized for grade and size. That will result in imported onions flooding the market that do not rise to the standards that govern onions most of the year. The order is good from March 10 through June 4. Read the rules here.
This affects all U.S. onion growers, and your comments on the order’s importance throughout the nation are needed.
NOA
Only those who have not already commented in the previous period may do so this time. Comments can come from anyone else in an operation, but they must be original. No form letters or signing off on the same statement will be allowed.
